How to colonize as France??

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Hello,

I have a question how to colonize as france? I adopted the explore ideas and the quest even I got the 50% range for colonize but after I merged france into one country i still can't reach the first province in africa to colonize ( the one below morroco its to the west ) it says I have no range :( How to do it guys? what to conquer ??

[Xara]

Improve relations with portugal, castille, or morocco and ask for fleet basing rights.

[Hat8]

Wait until your colonial range grows through Diplomacy tech/explore tech.

[WokePanda]

Originally posted by Xara:

Improve relations with portugal, castille, or morocco and ask for fleet basing rights.

And in case you're confused like I was, Xara helped me out the other day! Once you ask for fleet basing rights, the extension of your range will not be shown where you would expect it to. It simply is shown when you mouse over "colonizable" places.

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ok thanks ill try that ! how about colonizing south america ? or north america? for south I know what I needto do colonize africa and make a core, but what about north america how to get range there??

[Xara]

You have to leapfrog your way there if you go early. You can't go right to it, you need to colonize, make core, then use that colony to establish a new colony further out, and so on.

[Link]

ok thanks for answers !!

[neofutur]

I do the same thing as portugal, getting a core ( well 2 , mellilla and ifni ) in morocco, works pretty well, ;)
imo most of the early colonization for france is eating morocco then mali ( and both are ultra easy targets, being pope and calling the crusade on them will also help
also as france and with this strategy, i dont take exploration ideas, but expansion ideas, its enough when you own most of morocco and mali
another thing, if you can get england to cancel treaties with portugal, and make portugal your "best friend forever", that will greatly help, best ally you can have to survive the next 2 centuries

once you have a core in ifni, a colonial range advisor will also help ( but owning mali is easier and cheaper :p )

[Kagemin]

Or you just take land from the natives and go from there...

[Crewmember 123]

Best would be just to vasalize Spain/Castilia, Portugal and Netherland , they will do that job for you :D
.. and instead of taking exploration, expansion would be better choise..